Russian Emergencies Ministry helicopter has made an urgent landing at the border zone of Georgia, due to disrepair of the navigation system, but not through fault of the pilots, as was reported earlier.
This has been declared IA "Res" by Minister of Emergency Situations of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov.
"The helicopter was navigated by the experienced and qualified pilots; they did not commit any error. It was an emergency landing, related to defects of the navigation system "- underlined Bibilov.
According to him, after the urgent troubleshooting the helicopter took off and landed in a village of Tbet in the Tskhinvali district of South Ossetia.
Earlier, the representative of the RSO KGB Border Control Agency has reported that September 21 a helicopter of the Ministry of the Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, with the humanitarian aid for South Ossetia, mistakenly landed at the border zone with Georgia on the outskirts of Tskhinval.